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This tiny snail was found in the vernal pond called Kelly Pond. The identification chart for the preserve says that this snail is an Orb Snail, but iNaturalist doesn't have a listing for Orb Snail.

Note the bizarre hairs with branchlets that are on the nutlets!

Birchleaf Mountain Mahogany

These were under ice and snow yesterday and the day before

Fine cilia on its body set up a powerful vortex drawing food to its mouth. It regularly contracted its front end, maybe swallowing food.

Amplexo

Found beneath a rotted out yucca. @cedric_lee, @tlawson, @pliffgrieff, @jannvendetti

5mm across.

Foolishly thought it was a juvenile helminthoglypt and didn't take more pics. It was very small.

On lemon leaf

Host: Canyon Live Oak (Quercus chrysolepis)

Host Observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102203756

on Q. agrifolia

• parasitoid exit holes?

Acmon blue larva on seacliff buckwheat (<i>Eriogonum parvifolium</i>) in Santa Barbara County , California.

Under a burnt log in large open grassland amid Douglas fir / Bishop pine forest (fire was not recent, or it was due to a spot fire).

Second of 2 types of strange new galls found on the same doug fir. These consisted of swollen twigs containing a single long larval chamber with a caterpillar-like larva inside.

Id please?

On tanoak

On California Scrub Oak. No gall seems similar in Russo aside from a Midrib-gall Wasp that is not identified, noted on Mexican Blue Oak.